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I've never worked anywhere that backed up laptops. Onedrive, fileshares, cloud storage, servers, sure. I would not want to try managing backups for devices that

I've never worked anywhere that backed up laptops. Onedrive, fileshares, cloud storage, servers, sure. I would not want to try managing backups for devices that aren't guaranteed online 24/7. The odd failed server backup is enough work, now apply that to 2000 laptops. Fuck that, save your shit on our backed up infra.

freetanga 2y ago
They did, or at least Some folders (way before iCloud) During a project, the live documents were on the teams laptops (local encryption). Only key deliverables were uploaded to servers, mostly at the end of the project. Lots of cruft (client emails, unedited data, etc) stayed behind in people’s laptops. Your laptop was stolen? No worries, under 24 hrs you get a new one in your hotel with roughly whenever you left off… PS McK was handing out 3G - 4G PCMIA cards forever (almost 20 y ago), you were only most of the time…